Replies to post #12171 on Destiny Media Tech Inc (DSNY)

[brooklyn13]

Look at the little video ads that run on the right side of Destiny's iHub site - they seem to be about 2x2 inches. Clipstream will be fine doing those, no one's blowing them up to view full screen.

[DoughDiligence]

Is a 15 second Taco Bell ad popping up in front of your business video better? That diffuses the message and loses viewers too.

IMO - the quality is pretty good at 2 Mbps on most devices for general videos - excluding high-action or huge screens. If I see two versions of the video - Clipstream and 1080p, I can tell the difference otherwise I don't even think about it.

Then there is the secure video solutions which is a unique market.

[DoughDiligence]

When you criticize Destiny's decisions you should consider their global plan - not a plan to deliver the best quality video to those who can afford 54Mbps service.

Here is Wikipedia's data on Internet Access speeds by Country. Only the top 30 countries AVERAGE over 6 Mbps in 2014. Half the people in those countries have higher speeds and half have lower speeds. These are wired and wireless speeds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_connection_speeds

Bloomberg published a list of MOBILE SPEEDS in 2013. Only 4 countries in the Top 20 country were averaging above 2 Mbps. Data is from Cisco Systems.

http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2013-05-01/countries-with-fastest-mobile-data-speeds.html#slide21

Businesses who want to reach broad customer bases need video solutions that work at speeds well below 2 Mbps without crashing or taking large bandwidth.

[Hugodrax]

I wouldn't waste your time.

Video is, and will be, standards-based.

Video is, and will be, decoded in hardware decoders on silicon, based on the standards.

Clipstream is a proprietary codec, of poor quality I might add, that uses software decoding, relying on the web browser to render the video in JavaScript, a totally inappropriate language and inferior architecture.

Even the supposed security benefit required a "security pack" plug-in, when the whole concept of "Clipstream" was supposed to be plugin-free.

A bad solution to a problem that doesn't exist wrapped in a weak company run by buffoons. IMHO.

Steve V has been talking the same thing for literally 15 years. It didn't work with Java, and it's obviously not working with JavaScript.

Maybe in another 15 years it will start to sink in.